you wake up the next morning, boom, there's hoop houses. i'm not talking about one or two, i'm talking about 25 that turned up overnight. also medical marijuana is legal in new mexico, both hemp and marijuana are illegal on tribal land. from a distance, you don't know what it is — you just see plants. until you actually zoom in and you realise, this is marijuana. the distinction between marijuana and hemp was central to the problems in new mexico. the cannabis plant has different kinds of by—products depending on how it's grown. the main difference is the thc level, the psychoactive compound that causes a user high. hemp has almost no thc and can be grown as an industrial crop for things like textiles and bio fuels.